Catch a Falling Star and Put it in Your Pocket

While I draw the comic that I was supposed to have made on Sunday, I invite you to enjoy this three-layer marbled chocolate-funfetti cake featuring Garrus riding through the cosmos on Pinkie Pie that I made instead as a birthday surprise for my friends Balactus and Captain MAAAN of the Harbinger Podcast and their celebratory Bioware Birthday Bash episode (that I got to participate in).

Those beef-cake drawings you sold at auction in Oz are hilarious! How did I miss that?! (/rhetorical question) And now a Pinkie cake? Between your excellent comic and these deeds, your cup runneth over with awesome.

@runedeadthA I agree with you, even if no one else does. Damn ponies everywhere even when it makes no sense to have them. Also it’s very hypocrital for Coela to say that the characters from shonen aren’t manly, and then uploading this. Which, no matter what LinNeTule says, is NOT manly at all.

BTW bronies, save your “love and tolerance” for yourselves. It’s even more hypocrital to say that when it’s not true. Behave yourselves, sarcasm gets boring when we see that that’s all you can try to do against people who don’t like the show.

This is so head-palm worthy I’m not even sure how to respond. How dare I make a cake with a pony and Garrus on it for my friend who likes My Little Pony and my friend who likes Garrus to present them with at their birthday party. And then post it on my site for people who I think would laugh at at.

The comic got it’s title from a gay club song because I thought it was funny. Your favourite bishounen could be manly as all-get-out, but I try to pick characters for machismo. Which is so similar while being a completely different thing…

^this. I am brony. I will tolerate your decision to not watch the show. I can understand that. However there is no reason that your fear of emotion should be projected as hate towards something you don’t understand. So either watch the show and then tell me why you hate it, or shut up and get off my internet.

funny thing is, I could see this same argument being said by the twilight mom’s.

now, dont get me wrong, im not a brony or anything. but not everyone has to watch a showto hate it, also, remember this is not you’re internet. anyone can come to this site, whether they like mlp or not. but do keep in mind maybe it’s not a fear of emotion. maybe it’s just disgust and repulsion at something that is in fact a tad bit childish. Do remember this is a webcomic site, we come here to see comic and try to relieve some stress. not argue over something so trivial as a show.

Actually, I’m pretty sure we all come here to see the funny thing that Coelasquid has posted this week, which is usually of the webcomic variety. As Coelasquid owns this little corner of the internet, whatever Coelasquid says, goes, and if you don’t like it, you can go.

As far as Twilight goes, there are perfectly valid reasons to dislike it on principle. For an illustrated guide to the basics of what is wrong with Twilight, please consult http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight

My own personal pet peeve is the idea that Pants (aka Bella) thinks that the best way to get her boyfriend to pay more attention to her is TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE and that IT WORKS. Suicide as a cry for help is prevelant (and tragic) enough without encouraging it in a novel aimed at emotionally unstable teenage girls.

As your strawman lies bleeding in the dirt, perhaps you will have a tilt at my windmills. Can you please explain what you find so distasteful about a children’s show advocating friendship and tolerance that adults can enjoy alongside children?

I, to my eternal shame, actually read Twilight. The whole series. It was awful. Easily as bad as they say. It is also not as well-written, entertaining, or as manly as MLP. After closing the last book, i sat down and cried in sorrow for the human race (internally).

You can’t say my love and tolerance is insincere without knowing anything about me. I genuinely feel bad that you’re angry about a single pink horse in an otherwise pony-free comic. Why are you angry? What can I do to help? This isn’t sarcasm it’s genuine remorse for ponies making people upset when the entire point of the show is to do the opposite.

Something being manly and pretending to be manly are two different things. Shonen characters try to be “tough and manly”, where as liking ponies can be manly because “it takes a real man to X” (X being something not traditionally manly).

It really is up to you to define what manly is, but I think you are mis-interpreting the meaning of all of this.

Not to mention this is not the comic, this is a gift to someone. A true man can understand these things. I hope this helps out a bit. Thanks for reading.

I must have missed the part where she said that MLP was manly, then. Because the comic features unmanly characters and themes all the time, unless you think Jonesy, Jared, Maddy and the kids, Poison, Link, and Jem are manly simply by virtue of having appeared on this website.

Okay, let me spell it out for you. This comic? Is about making fun of things that are perceived to be manly. Duke Nukem is a nerd that occasionally cries angsty buckets of tears that no one understands them while hiding on the rafters of bridges. Leonidas and Kratos had an epic gay chicken battle that ultimately culminated with them buying scented candles at IKEA. Commander Badass bakes muffins with his daughter.

What’s hypocritical is for you to keep raging about one, single, solitary comic that mocked your precious bishies (who I admittedly favor more than manly men, mind) and yet ignore every other comic that makes fun of ‘manly’ men and their preconceptions of what makes them manly. That is hypocritical, and it’s all you.

The very fact that you keep harping about ‘manliness’ and how the comic is only supposed to showcase manliness shows that you either missed the point by a mile or you just didn’t read any of the other comics. Which begs the question of why the hell you’re even here.

Seriously. GET – OVER – IT – ALREADY. I don’t even whine this much when I’m on my period, what the hell is your excuse?

ma·chis·mo [mah-cheez-moh, -chiz-, muh-] noun
1. a strong or exaggerated sense of manliness; an assumptive attitude that virility, courage, strength, and entitlement to dominate are attributes or concomitants of masculinity.
2. a strong or exaggerated sense of power or the right to dominate: The military campaign was an exercise in national machismo.

The conceptual punchline for the comic, as the URL indicates, is the aforementioned machismo: these are big, burly, manly men, and they are doing whatever the hell they want to do, whether you perceive it as manly or not, because it is as much a deconstruction of the concept of machismo as it is a jab at the general prevalence of men who look like they spend three hours every morning getting worked over by their stylists before going out.

In short (feel free to read this in your assumptive take on Commander Badass’s voice):

Quit’cher bitchen. Nobody’s makin’ ya read it. Yer almost as bad as the guy that made an entire website dedicated to deconstructin’ every XKCD comic because he honestly believes that the artist of the comic cares that he thinks it’s not funny.

Your missing the fact that truly manly men can like things like this because they are secure enough not to give a crap about people that try to say they shouldn’t. Its the whole point of the line “only real men wear pink” manly men do what they want not what others try to tell them they should.

As for the whole shonen business Coela never said none were manly just that most the ones raved about aren’t and the reasons most people give for them being great are the exact things that make them fail the manly tests.

I want to take this opportunity for a chance to vote Garrus and Wrex becoming part of the Agency (After the Horrible Bishounen virus is gone,of course.). Because first: i think they make great manly Aliens and Second: i can already see many funny moments to happen ,some of them including the not-so-alien freindly members of the agency.

Some people would have gone too far. They would have added a nyan rainbow trail to Pinkie. I am glad you were not one of those tacky people. Your restrained composition is a marvel of good taste and decency.

I second that. And also that Commander Badass, while entirely comfortable with enjoying his daughters’ ponies, might be profoundly uncomfortable with Jared’s attempting to use them as a common ground between them. Jared’s love of ponies is nothing like CB’s.

Also, I really do not understand what is non-manly about Garrus riding a pony through space on cake. Garrus is all manly, all the time, even and especially while riding pink ponies on cakes. The pony just makes him look manlier by comparison. Also, cakes are extremely manly. Have you ever seen a male chef bake a cake? It’s crazy how intense they get about it.

In other words: It’s not what a man does, but how he does it, that makes him manly.

It might not be a comic, but it still made me laugh.
Are there any pictures of what it looked like inside? The description makes it sound really yummy and I apparently like to torture myself with seeing deliciousness that I won’t get to partake in.

I genuinely can’t bring myself to understand WHY people are getting pissy and angry over this – Hell, I’d be pissed if Coela DIDN’T post the picture up! I wish that I had a friend good enough and talented enough to go out of their way to do something like that for me – How DARE people get angry when a) this is Coela’s site and she can post whatever the fuck she wants and b) we get provided with FREE comics EVERY week, and are asked for nothing in return? That and… That picture has ‘Your argument is invalid’ written all over it, so take a hint.

I made the mistake of looking at the comments, and now I want to see a Big Brother pony in the manly men comic. Ponies bite and kick viciously. One stallion services a herd of mares because mares can so easily put a stallion of permanent business. Jared had better watch his step around the so-cute ponies…

This made me chuckle. Then some of the comments made me sigh in exasperation. What is with all the hate? It’s just a cartoon. Not one that I watch, though that would change in an instant if Bruce Campbell voiced anything in it. (loved him in Megas XLR!)

Speaking of, Ashley Williams might not have the pectoral girth or the manliest name, but he’s got one hell of a manly chin, and that whole chainsaw/shotgun, reload only for dramatic effect thing, so I think he might be a good contender to at least cameo…

I watch My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. I watch it because my niece asks me to watch it when she’s over and it’s on. And as this comic has shown us, a real man is a good caretaker of children and does stuff to show they love them.

Therefore in the very logic of the comic the argument of My Little Pony being unmanly is invalid.

Manly men do what needs to be done, and don’t whine about it. Sometimes that involves hotboxing cigars. Sometimes that involves flexing muscles. Sometimes that involves watching a show about ponies with a little girl.

Holy crap! With the Mass Effect saga drawing to a close, I think there may be a Krogan, Turian, and a certain commander looking for work. I smell a storyline here…Better yet, what if “Fem-Shep” and “Bro-Shep” were not the same person but rather twins and both looking for work/fighting over who ACTUALLY saved Earth?

I’m kind of saddened for humanity reading some of these comments. I grew out of most weekly animes especially the shonen bishi type and hey I’m one of those guys who just happens to watch MLP and think it’s great. That aside, I think the most important point you pro bishi guys are overlooking is that, Coela can post WHATEVER SHE WANTS on HER WEBSITE. Just my opinion.

I must admit, anyone who has been bashing on this cake must have forgotten the cardinal rule about being manly. REAL MEN WEAR PINK. In other words being manly has nothing to do with what you do, it has to do with what you are. As long as you know that what you still have control while the morons are screaming the lungs off in rage then you are manly, if not, if instead you’re the morons then look in the mirror and ask your self, AM I MANLY? and if the answer isn’t no then try the **** again.

I don’t think it’s ironic at all, since the comic creator’s personal taste doesn’t necessarily have to coincide with what is “macho” enough for her comic…since this isn’t appearing canonically in the comic, it really has no bearing on that…

That cake reminds me of the birthday, where a friend brought me a chocolate cake with a picture of taokaka from Blazbkue drawn on it. Geeze, why is everybody getting their panties in a twist over a cake? What, are you guys mad because you never had a friend nice enough to do something like that for you?

On MLP I don’t have a problem with adult males watching a cartoon for little girls, I watched a few episodes and I dislike it for numerous reasons but I know I like things which others don’t.

The venomous reaction however is bred from those MLP “fans” (probably people who just like it for a joke or cause the internet told them to) who bring it up and force it on people when it has nothing to do with the topic at hand or generally just take things way too far.

Anyone who has the balls to whine about this cake obviously has not had any experience trying to make art with icing. That’s tricky stuff, and I applaud your incredible talent in such a difficult medium!! I’m not a fan of either of those things (from lack of exposure rather than dislike) but I could stare in awe at that cake for hours…